> Here are the permissions I have set for pdftex.cfg
The permissions look fine actually.. are you able to run pdflatex on
a regular .tex file and generate a pdf file? Secondly, do you have
the pdfpages package? "kpsewhich pdfpages.sty" should tell you if
it's installed. And thirdly, you may wan
(bringing it back onto the list)
Aah.. so pdflatex doesn't work... okay, so it's a more basic
problem.. I'm not sure why pdflatex can't find the cfg file... have
you run texhash recently? Maybe that'll help... hope someone here
can point out why pdflatex doesn't work...
nirmal
Robert Orr wrot
Hi Nirmal,
Here are the permissions I have set for pdftex.cfg
# ls -ltr
total 10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root2890 Jun 30 1998
cmttf.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 609 Oct 12 2002
pdftex.cfg
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Feb 1 2003
context
#
# exit
pdf_nup>
pd
Error:
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/pdflatex
(file pdftex.cfg): ca
nnot open config file
==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not
finished!
Obvious qn. but.. do you have read access to the pdftex.cfg file?
You may need to change permissions on this file.. I was able to
r
--- Nirmal wrote:
> You need to edit the pdfnup script and specify the
> location of the
> pdflatex executable. You'll see this near the top of
> the pdfnup script:
>
> pdflatex="/usr/bin/pdflatex"
Thanks Nirmal,
I definitely have that set correctly.
%> pdfnup --nup 1x1 --pages 1
And this is the .log file from this conversion
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b (Web2C 7.4.5)
(format=pdflatex 2003.4.10) 15 JAN 2004 15:26
**temppdffile.pdf
(./temppdffile.pdf
Error: pdflatex (file pdftex.cfg): cannot open config
file
==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not
f
Thanks for the reply Herbert. To answer your
question...
> this is done by the installtion and it is saved in
> /texmf/pdftex/config
>
I found pdftex.cfg. It is there under
/usr/local/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg
> > %> pdflatex temppdffile.pdf
>
> what is this? Are you run
I've tested several pdf-tools and the best was Adobe Acrobat.
I know that it is commercial software but also available for
Unix/Linux.
Is it? That it is the news -- so far the only variant was Acrobat
Reader, which is not capable of doing all this stuff. And even
Reader is not in sync with Win/
On Friday 16 of January 2004 07:58, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> I've tested several pdf-tools and the best was Adobe Acrobat.
> I know that it is commercial software but also available for
> Unix/Linux.
Is it? That it is the news -- so far the only variant was Acrobat
Reader, which is not capable of doing
I'm writting a lyx document and I want to include some
figures & text from a .pdf document, but not the whole
.pdf. How can I break up my .pdf file into smaller
pieces (ideally I'd like to save each page of the .pdf
as it's own separate file).
Does any lyx user know of a tool I could use
Robert Orr wrote:
I tried to use the pdfpages package in LyX but it
gave me errors.
I think it is because of this problem with pdflatex
not having a .cfg file. Anybody know how to
generate a pdftex.cfg file?
this is done by the installtion and it is saved in
/texmf/pdftex/config
%> pdf
I tried to use the pdfpages package in LyX but it
gave me errors.
I think it is because of this problem with pdflatex
not having a .cfg file. Anybody know how to
generate a pdftex.cfg file?
This is the output I got from pdflatex...
%> pdflatex temppdffile.pdf
This is pdfTeX, Vers
Robert Orr wrote:
> I'm writting a lyx document and I want to include some
> figures & text from a .pdf document, but not the whole
> .pdf. How can I break up my .pdf file into smaller
> pieces (ideally I'd like to save each page of the .pdf
> as it's own separate file).
http://pstricks.de/pdf
> \usepackage{pdfpages}
>
I'm sorry, I'm not up to understanding what this does
after it is added to the preamble.
How do I then go about splitting up the .pdf?
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 07:35:46AM -0800, Robert Orr wrote:
> I'm writting a lyx document and I want to include some
> figures & text from a .pdf document, but not the whole
> .pdf. How can I break up my .pdf file into smaller
> pieces (ideally I'd like to save each page of the .pdf
> as it's o
.pdf. How can I break up my .pdf file into smaller
pieces (ideally I'd like to save each page of the .pdf
as it's own separate file).
pdfnup should be able to handle this.. just google for "pdfnup" and
you'll get the download link.
nirmal
I'm writting a lyx document and I want to include some
figures & text from a .pdf document, but not the whole
.pdf. How can I break up my .pdf file into smaller
pieces (ideally I'd like to save each page of the .pdf
as it's own separate file).
Does any lyx user know of a tool I could use
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